Cyberweek Fall 2007 October 15-19

This FREE one-hour course is provided all week courtesy of the Internet Bar Institute and Transformative Law. The course also includes a 30 minute podcast on ethics issues related to building an ODR practice, featuring Lucian Pera, Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Technology & Information Services.

This course provides detailed information about the factors leading people, businesses, courts and government agencies to choose alternative dispute resolution in a growing number of situations. The course also presents an analysis of the tools and companies that are enabling ODR. Examples of lawyers making the transition to the incorporation of ODR and ADR into their practices is also provided. The course also discusses how to establish and grow a practice in this field, by presenting specific examples about how to discuss ADR/ODR with clients and where to use ADR/ODR to extend your overall services.

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PLEASE NOTE: When accessing the free course, you will be taken to a login page. Select "log in as a guest" to be admitted to the course at no charge

Join business bestseller, lawyer, consultant and trainer Stewart Levine for an exciting exploration of the roots of conflict and how to approach the inevitable conflicts in life from an empowered perspective. Whether you are a lawyer or mediator this approach to conflict will open a new world of understanding that you can apply to clients and cases. The Resolutionary Approach works wonderfully beyond the business world as well, as people in all walks of life are using it to resolve personal, marital, familial and other conflicts. Much data now demonstrates that about half the U.S. population shares a common set of values related to how we see ourselves in the world. Included in this new value set are new and different approaches to dealing with conflict. Even if you are a traditional litigator its wise to understand these dynamics because more and more of your potential clients may have a different view of what it means to win. To serve such people, its wise to understand their motivations and viewpoints and Stewart's work goes directly to assessing and managing conflict from this perspective.

In this live webcast Jim Melamed, President of Mediate.com and Jeff Aresty, President of Internet Bar move beyond the discussion of what the future holds for the mediation and legal professions to have a practical conversation about what is already here: tools and consumer demand for alternative forms of dispute resolution. What's needed? Lawyers and mediators willing to become skilled in the use of online forums for resolving conflict. Among the topics to be discussed are how online and offline workspaces can be used together to offer a range of ADR solutions; how the marketplace for business to consumer ODR such as the e-Bay model has helped to create demand for person to person ODR; why the economies inherent to ODR make the consumer market viable for both mediators and lawyers, despite the fact that unit pricing may be lower than it is for the provision of offline services; and much more!

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Lawyers are known for their high IQ-it is a profession marked by highly intelligent and hard-working people focused on producing results. However, as much recent research has shown, there are in fact many different forms of intelligence and intellect is only one of them. In this audio podcast lawyer, professor, consultant and psychologist Paula Raines and Edward Rholl, Executive Director of Internet Bar discuss emotional intelligence and specifically why EQ is a vitally important tool for lawyers. While this discussion covers a broad range of topics related to EQ, perhaps most importantly Ms. Raines discusses high-level research proving that lawyers with high EQ scores consistently make more money and get more clients than lawyers with lower EQ scores. To learn why and how to begin to harness your own EQ skills join us for this conversation, available all week.

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In this fast-paced conversation distinguished professor of law at Stanford University and founder of Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, discusses the Creative Commons license, its genesis, purpose and application for individual artists. Professor Lessig provides many specific examples of how the licenses work, how rights can be both granted and retained, why Creative Commons licenses are not contracts and how they can be enforced. Within this discussion Professor Lessig addresses specific questions about how individual artists can and are using Creative Commons licenses to get their works into the vast digital market space, while protecting their rights to profit commercially from their work.

In this engaging conversation we discuss the future of the digitally connected world with Nicholas Negroponte, Founder of One Laptop Per Child. Studies indicate that as many as a billion people from developing countries will be connected to the Internet in the next several years. This will profoundly alter the "space" within which social and commercial interaction takes place online. However, to make this "new market of a billion people" a reality there is much work to do, most of which has little to do with satellites and micro chips. In this discussion we'll explore the technological side of initiatives such as OLPC but we'll focus on the social and cultural challenges and opportunities inherent to connecting people to a global social and commercial network that has no cultural precedent in their shared or individual experience. We'll also explore why lawyers and the rule of law is vital to this process and what opportunities-commercial and pro bono-are available to lawyers and law firms as the developing world moves online.

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Lawyers and mediators: are you connected internally and externally to your clients and market place yet? If not, or if only partially, don't miss this one hour podcast on the challenges and opportunities inherent to a technology-centric practice. Judd Kessler, President of Abacus Data Systems and Gunter Enz, President of LawInfo.com will discuss a range of issues relating to how to leverage the power of technology to expand a practice, while ensuring that its use is concomitant to best practices that reduce risk. We'll explore how to utilize online attorney-client matching services and how to determine what information to provide in profiles related to such services. We'll also discuss how to maximize value and find the best services to bring quality leads to your practice. In addition, we'll discuss how law office automation software can help you reduce errors and client upsets that relate directly to a reduction in complaints and even malpractice claims.  

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Join us for a fun and engaging roundtable discussion with participants in the first Internet Bar Contest who developed a business plan to reduce poverty in Africa through e-commerce and trusted online communities. If you are a law student or a young lawyer looking for ways to expand your expertise, social and professionals connections, get published, win prizes and help change the world please listen in and learn how Internet Bar Contests work and what you can gain by participating!

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